| Fast rail offering hip personalised travel
E-TICKETS, on-board DVD rentals, events, and even new encounters French rail's new iDTGV trains are testing a new way of travel. Music blares from a speaker in a bustling bar and conversations get louder as customers just out of Paris meetings trickle in, settle down and order drinks. The barman hands over a beer, spilling a little as the brightly-coloured buffet car on the top deck of a customised high-speed TGV train rolls into its three-hour journey to the Mediterranean port city of Marseille. Joined to a regular TGV train, this iDTGV, playing on the French word "idee" or "idea", is operated privately, but owned by the national SNCF rail company and designed as a laboratory for future rail travel. Planned party train on the way The iDTGV was launched in December 2004 and offers cheaper tickets, internet reservations, and services aimed at pleasing passengers, including a soon-to-be launched party train, to help the SNCF better compete with low cost airlines.
YELLOWPAGES.Travel Partners With CheapTickets.com and Donates 15% of ...
(CSRwire) YELLOWPAGES.travel, a tool that enables users to search the top 12 travel websites with one click, has now partnered with CheapTickets.com and donates 15% of net proceeds to multiple charities. Users of CheapTickets.com can now search the site along with 11 other major travel sites with one click and donate to multiple charities such as the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society amongst others. LOS ANGELES, CA - December 4, 2007 - /PRNewswire/ - Yellow Pages Corporation, operator of popular online YellowPages websites and telephone books including travel website aggregator YELLOWPAGES.travel, today announced it has partnered with CheapTickets.com. YELLOWPAGES.travel will also be donating 15% of the net proceeds received from all airfare, hotel and car rental bookings performed on the site to multiple charities.
Orbitz Worldwide Signs New Distribution Agreement With Avis Budget ...
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: OWW) , a leading global online travel company, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NYSE: CAR) to distribute Avis Rent A Car (http://www.avis.com) and Budget Rent A Car (http://www.budget.com) inventory through its Orbitz (http://www.orbitz.com) and CheapTickets (http://www.cheaptickets.com) consumer brands and corporate travel offering, Orbitz for Business (http://www.orbitzforbusiness.com). "We're pleased to renew this alliance with two car rental brands that have a strong history with Orbitz Worldwide and its customers," said Sam Fulton, vice president and general manager, transportation, Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. "As Orbitz Worldwide works to offer more environmentally sound alternatives to our customers, we're pleased to immediately make available Avis Budget Group's fleet of gas/electric hybrid vehicles." In April 2007, Orbitz launched http://eco.orbitz.com, a microsite that enables its customers to book more environmentally friendly travel.
Tips For Redeeming And Collecting Flyer Miles
We all like to get something for free but there is an old adage that says “nothing is ever free". A free airplane ticket is the draw of frequent flyer points but since airlines are not in the business of giving away seats for free there are some things you need to be aware of. There are also some tricks to using your accumulated air miles so you can get the most benefit out of them. First off you need to choose a frequent flyer program and stick to that one program. Research the program and choose one that you will use most often. These programs also have partners including other airlines, retail stores, dining and car rental companies. Also research how many miles you receive for your flights and how many miles it takes to redeem a free ticket. Keep in mind that some airlines only give a percentage of the actual miles on discounted tickets so if you're a bargain hunter then pick a program that gives you one hundred percent of the miles on cheap tickets.
LIVE from the CNN Rental Car Center!
I've been told that CNN has the best political team on television. (That honor used to go to the Clintons.) So tonight I'm watching CNN. Wolf Blitzer is working the big board, crunching the numbers. Anderson Cooper, meanwhile, is consulting the panel of experts (David Gergen, Jeff Toobin and Gloria Borger, among them) for analysis. The experts sit side-by-side behind laptops, along tables that look more like counters. My snarky friend Jeremy says they look like cashiers at Chipotle. That's a cheap shot. It's obvious that the arrangement is modeled after an airport rental car center. It's a clean look and it's handily hierarchical: The A-team (as in Avis team) includes Gergen, Toobin and Borger. The B-team (as in Budget) tonight includes Paul Begala, Bill Bennett and Carl Bernstein. This is a pretty strong B-team.
Summit Daily Photos
It takes snow to draw skiers, and it takes good runoff when the snow melts in the spring to provide exciting rafting and water for green golf courses.
The good news is that local ski areas all have relatively high-elevation base areas, which helps ensure at least adequate snowfall.
But sometimes snow doesnt come, and business suffers.
Staufer has more than once tried to keep customers happy by sending them where theres snow.
In 1976 or so, Vail was hit hard by drought, and the slopes were mostly bare from Thanksgiving to Christmas.
A ski club from Gary, Indiana came to Vail around Thanksgiving. There was virtually no snow available at Vail, so Staufer did what he could, chartering a couple of buses to take his guests to Arapahoe Basin, where the slopes were at least covered, if not deeply.
Expected snow blankets area
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Dells may change sign ordinance for sword store
The sign would continue to use the existing canopy, although its design would be changed and the posts holding it would be encased in stone. Assistant Public Works Director Chris Tollaksen said in order to approve the sign, the BID needs to ask the city council and its legislative committee to approve changes in the ordinance. Because the current sign ordinance restricts the size of letters, Tollaksen said the BID committee could not approve it unless the council changed the ordinance. The committee could approve the structure of the canopy, he said.Under the current sign ordinance canopies are prohibited unless they were up before the ordinance was adopted. Members of the committee questioned whether the city wants to move towards eliminating canopies or whether it should allow them to continue.
Edmund Tijerina: Public hearing might be a good show
There's a pretty good chance that this morning's public hearing at Commissioners Court could be entertaining. Commissioners will hear a couple of presentations from groups that want a chunk of cash from the pile of money that would come from extending the county's tax on hotel rooms and rental cars. One presentation will come from the Briscoe Western Art Museum, and the other will come from the Alameda National Center for Latino Arts and Culture for the Alameda Theater. Then the public hearing on the venue tax takes place. You gotta figure that with an estimated $400 million potentially at stake with the tax, things could heat up. If you're interested, catch the hearings on a live webcast on the county's site: www.co.bexar.tx.us.
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